Dell 1545 Snow Leopard Retail/boot132 Install

Posted 29 December 2009 - 04:02 PM

guitar_frk

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Sorry for another noobish question.. But im kinda new to Mac, so when you say to get the display in 1366x768 install kext files(which i did), but stick the other file in the root of the Mac. I dont know exactly where you mean by the root. Just cause im used to windows. But if you could help me with that it would be amazing.

Posted 29 December 2009 - 06:55 PM

Sorry for another noobish question.. But im kinda new to Mac, so when you say to get the display in 1366x768 install kext files(which i did), but stick the other file in the root of the Mac. I dont know exactly where you mean by the root. Just cause im used to windows. But if you could help me with that it would be amazing.

The root of your drive is like the c: drive in windows, go to your above toolbar, then go to go, then go to computer, your c: drive is located here under what you named it, double click on it, and paste the dsdt file right there with everything else. dont forget to restart your computer, if it didnt work try again it took me a couple of times hope this helps.

I got Snow Leopard installed no issues using my retail DVD, when I installed all of the kexts in the step before the boot loader I got that nasty "you need to restart your mac" message and after that OSX would not boot again, I am now in the process of reinstalling it but wondering what I did wrong..

EDIT: My specs don't match yours wonder if that could be the reason..?

Inspiron 1545, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 2.1GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache

3GB, DDR2, 800MHz 2 Dimm

15.6 High Definition+ (900p) Bright LED Display with TrueLife

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD

250G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

So I take it I MIGHT be out of luck?

Edit: 2 Got everything installed and the kexts are done minus the enablesleep I suspect that was the issue before, so far only issue I have is the touchpad is too SENSITIVE and the prefvodoo crashes if I try to use it to change anything..

Hey There, After Reading About Your Problems And Viewing Your Hardware Specs Here's What I Can Tell You.

I See You Have Windows Installed On One Partition And MacOSX On Another, First Make Sure The Partition You Are Installing MacOSX Is Set To Primary And Is Formated To Fat32 As MacOSX Does Not LIke Being Set To a Secondary Partition.

And Try The Install Again.

Next If This Didnt Work I Would Reccomend Doing A Clean Install Of MacOSX And Seeing If That Works For You,And If It Did, Then Learning How To Dual Boot MacOSX and Win7

As You Are New To This, I Would Always Do A Clean Install As This Will Tell You Many Things

So I take it I MIGHT be out of luck?

Hey There Remember Patience Is A Virtue And No Your Not Out Of Luck

The First Thing I Would Do

I would Reinstall everything except this time skip over the part where you install the Extensions folder and do everything else

then restart your computer and find out what is not working then from there we will install what you need

just post back your results and ill help you take care of the rest

So I take it I MIGHT be out of luck?

No Your Not Out Of Luck

Sometimes This Happens I Would Just Reinstall Everything Just This Time Skip Over The Extensions Folder And Then Post Back What Doesnt Work AND we WILL Take It From There

Posted 29 December 2009 - 11:58 PM

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I got Snow Leopard installed no issues using my retail DVD, when I installed all of the kexts in the step before the boot loader I got that nasty "you need to restart your mac" message and after that OSX would not boot again, I am now in the process of reinstalling it but wondering what I did wrong..

EDIT: My specs don't match yours wonder if that could be the reason..?

Inspiron 1545, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 2.1GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache

3GB, DDR2, 800MHz 2 Dimm

15.6 High Definition+ (900p) Bright LED Display with TrueLife

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD

250G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

So I take it I MIGHT be out of luck?

Edit: 2 Got everything installed and the kexts are done minus the enablesleep I suspect that was the issue before, so far only issue I have is the touchpad is too SENSITIVE and the prefvodoo crashes if I try to use it to change anything..

I got the same problems! Did you managed to make things work with 1366 resolution? The kexts for resolution doesn't dork for me. I've tryed reinstalling those kext's 15 times and still nothing. help is needed here

Posted 30 December 2009 - 12:23 AM

I got the same problems! Did you managed to make things work with 1366 resolution? The kexts for resolution doesn't dork for me. I've tryed reinstalling those kext's 15 times and still nothing. help is needed here

Do Everything over just this time dont use any kexts from the extensions folder, it seams that maybe sleepenabler might be the problem hope this helps

Posted 30 December 2009 - 03:55 AM

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I've been trying to install snow leopard with your method and it's been successful. I've had some problems, though. First of all, i didn't knew how to install the kexts. Finally i did it, but i'm worried that after installing them, since i've already did before, i'll have a kernel panic. I've not installed the sleep kext. I'll post what happened. I sincerely hope this works out

Posted 30 December 2009 - 05:16 AM

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An update I got everything working on my 1545 with the specs I posted earlier except for the 1366 res or w.e it was, I did get 1280 x 800 working editing the com.boot plist and trying "Graphics Mode"=1280x1024x32" and 1280 x 800 was working overall I wasn't too happy with it and ended up going back to Linux Mint and my Dual of 7. I give in and am going to be buying a macbook soon so I can have the best of both worlds. When I didn't install the sleep kext everything was fine btw for anyone wondering.

Posted 30 December 2009 - 06:44 AM

I've been trying to install snow leopard with your method and it's been successful. I've had some problems, though. First of all, i didn't knew how to install the kexts. Finally i did it, but i'm worried that after installing them, since i've already did before, i'll have a kernel panic. I've not installed the sleep kext. I'll post what happened. I sincerely hope this works out

Im Glad To See I Could Help And Please Post Back Your Results.

Great Job

An update I got everything working on my 1545 with the specs I posted earlier except for the 1366 res or w.e it was, I did get 1280 x 800 working editing the com.boot plist and trying "Graphics Mode"=1280x1024x32" and 1280 x 800 was working overall I wasn't too happy with it and ended up going back to Linux Mint and my Dual of 7. I give in and am going to be buying a macbook soon so I can have the best of both worlds. When I didn't install the sleep kext everything was fine btw for anyone wondering.

Good luck to everyone else and thanks for the info and support

Thanks For Posting Back Your Results And Good Luck With Everything

will the included boot 132 cd help boot up SL in a Dell Studio XPS w/Core i7 (1645)?I know the specs are very different, but approach would you recommend for my laptop to install SL?

You Can Find Many Great Tutorials Here For That But My Personal Opinion Use This Boot CD and Install Using The Retail Disk Then Do A Search For The Kexts That Match Your Hardware Ie Audio Wireless And Sound Hope That Helps.

Well. I installed all the kexts, including sleep. Everything works fine now, but i can't seem to get the native resolution....

This Is What Worked For Me, After The First Time i Installed The Kext And Placed The Dsdt File In Root And Restarted My computer And It Didnt Work ,

I Reinstalled The Kexts Again, Then I Dragged And Dropped The Dsdt File Again in root Replacing The One I Copied Earlier Then I restarted My Computer And There It Was. Hope This Helps

Posted 31 December 2009 - 02:48 AM

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I have now the native resolution. Thanks a lot. I reinstalled the os. But, i haven't installed the combo yet. Thanks for the advice, i'll post what happens after the update. Also, i copied the mac.boot.plst from another post, and have it working. Now i don't know if it was because of that that my resolution get native. it looks like this:

Posted 31 December 2009 - 08:14 AM

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Hey, so im wondering, the master sound isnt affecting anything on mac. Yes i do have sound, but i have to controll it from the program itself(youtube, itunes, ect) I can have it muted and sound will still come through. Any fix for this?